Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 16, 2017 16:44:25 GMT 12
TRIBUNAL TO HEAR CLAIMS OF CROWN TREATY BREACHES HARMING MAORI HEALTH
Maori doctors are to get their day in the Waitangi Tribunal, nine years after lodging a claim of Crown treaty breaches damaging to Maori health.
Many health-related Treaty of Waitangi claims will be advanced this year under one overarching Health Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry.
In 2013, Te ORA told the tribunal of numerous Crown practices detrimental to Maori health. In a letter, it said the Crown acted with insufficient determination to remedy inequitable Maori health outcomes.
Among other things, it pointed to the Crown failing to: achieve parity of Maori health workers in relation to the Maori population; establish culturally safe therapeutic environments; address substandard housing; and control tobacco, alcohol and gambling......
www.nzdoctor.co.nz/news/2017/march-2017/16/tribunal-to-hear-claims-of-crown-treaty-breaches-harming-maori-health.aspx
Maori doctors are to get their day in the Waitangi Tribunal, nine years after lodging a claim of Crown treaty breaches damaging to Maori health.
Many health-related Treaty of Waitangi claims will be advanced this year under one overarching Health Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry.
In 2013, Te ORA told the tribunal of numerous Crown practices detrimental to Maori health. In a letter, it said the Crown acted with insufficient determination to remedy inequitable Maori health outcomes.
Among other things, it pointed to the Crown failing to: achieve parity of Maori health workers in relation to the Maori population; establish culturally safe therapeutic environments; address substandard housing; and control tobacco, alcohol and gambling......
www.nzdoctor.co.nz/news/2017/march-2017/16/tribunal-to-hear-claims-of-crown-treaty-breaches-harming-maori-health.aspx
